Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hare, 51, is afraid of getting too comfortable in his own skin. Which might explain why, just as the Nicole Kidman vehicle The Blue Room ends its wildly successful run and Judi Dench is busy rehearsing for the April opening on Broadway of his London hit Amy's View, he has decided to climb out on a new limb. This month the auteur turns actor with a 12-week run performing Via Dolorosa, a monologue about, of all things, the Middle East. "I just find the regular concerns of the theater so boring," Hare says. "I just don't want...
...Purell, body lotion, sponge, detergent, telephone swabs), I became obsessed. It reached its climax last month when I heard about the Killer Germ. The germ, a new strain of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria immune to antibiotics, had killed a middle-aged woman in Hong Kong. Normally, I wouldn't be afraid of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria because I don't know what it is. But Killer Germ I understood...
...Killer Germ is a Frankenstein's monster built from our collective neuroses. To fight this new battle, I now think that everyone, even exhibitionist models with a knack for sensuous hand gestures, should abandon their Purell. Except me. I haven't been waging the germ war because I'm afraid of getting sick. I like being sick. It means I get to stay home and watch that little yodeling mountain climber on The Price Is Right. No, I'm waging my own secret, illogical germ warfare because that way, when the end comes and it's just me and Mandel...
...abortion extremists. Doctors go to work wearing bullet-proof vests to work in clinics which are bombed, blockaded and invaded. The violence against doctors extends beyond the workplace. Dr. Barnett Slepian was murdered in his home, the victim of a sniper. The families of these doctors live in fear, afraid of being attacked in their own homes. The attacks have increased over time-seven murders of abortion providers have all happened in the last six years...
...debuted Friday night. Rodman's hair was Laker purple and yellow, and his rebounding and hustle helped his new team to an easy win over the hapless Clippers. "As a player, we can use him, plain and simple," says veteran guard Derek Harper, who won't be afraid to take Rodman by the hand if he goes goofy on them...